Renoir

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Renoir

2025

2h 2m

Drama

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Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift -- her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn't much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death -- becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn't quite ready to name yet. Chie Hayakawa's sophomore feature is a tender, often unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl. Led by transfixing newcomer Yui Suzuki, RENOIR "delicately articulates the girl's inner child in a way that allows us to feel it expand across the season," (IndieWire) and "steps to a delicate rhythm whose echo isn't heard until the very end" (RogerEbert.com).

Critics Consensus

A restrained meditation on grief, Renoir gradually accumulates a big emotional wallop thanks in large part to Yui Susuzki's guileless performance.

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Namrata Joshi

The New Indian Express

Jul 31

Hayakawa wins the day by casting the amazing Yui Suzuki as Fuki. She has just the perfect mix of the idiosyncratic and imaginative, innocent and vulnerable to make the inner struggles of the character strongly resonant.

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Justin Chang

The New Yorker

Jun 2

What distinguishes Hayakawa's approach is a principled refusal of the obvious; she doesn't strain to make Fuki relatable, or diagnose her, or problematize her occasional flights of fantasy.

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Dave Calhoun

Time Out

May 21

4/5

It’s as interesting for what it doesn’t show as for what it does. This is a story of terminal illness, but it exists in and around the main events rather than depicting them head-on. It’s a tender, loose and slightly whimsical tale.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Apr 20

...despite the initial harshness of the story, Renoir is not a bitter film, but rather hopeful and luminous, brimming with bluish hues, with which Hayakawa crafts sequences of exquisite visual poetry that ignite the screen. [Full review in Spanish]

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Carlota Mosegui

Cinemanía (Spain)

Apr 16

3.5/5

An unconventional existentialist children's drama. [Full review in Spanish]

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

Apr 16

3/5

A Beautiful film which teach us how to live the present. [Full review in Spanish]

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Russell J. T

@Mnbear3 Apr 17

My biggest and probably only gripe with this movie is titling it "Renoir " when in fact the only Renoir reference in this movie is a small framed portrait of Renoir that hangs in the young girl’s room. It’s quite a misleading title as it stands…. (I should explain that the local theater did not use the tile you see here with the young girl’s face …. Instead they used an impressionist wash background of blues and greens w simply " Renoir" on it….. So we thought we were going to a film about Renoir!! Took a bit of adjusting to settle into a different mindset but we did. Lesson learned: Read summaries/ reviews before booking! :)

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Yui Suzuki

Fuki Okita

Hikari Ishida

Utako Okita

Ayumu Nakajima

Toru Omaezaki

Yumi Kawai

Kuriko Kita

Ryota Bando

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Synopsis

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift -- her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn't much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death -- becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn't quite ready to name yet. Chie Hayakawa's sophomore feature is a tender, often unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl. Led by transfixing newcomer Yui Suzuki, RENOIR "delicately articulates the girl's inner child in a way that allows us to feel it expand across the season," (IndieWire) and "steps to a delicate rhythm whose echo isn't heard until the very end" (RogerEbert.com).

Director: Chie Hayakawa
Producer: Eiko Mizuno Gray, Jason Gray
Screenwriter: Chie Hayakawa
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Loaded Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 31, 2026
Runtime: 2h 2m